>Visiting family at the weekend my brother showed me his solar telescope.
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>A Coronado Personal Solar Telescope.
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>I've not used one of these before and it was fascinating to be able to see the sun and solar flares etc. I could even see the granularity of the suns surface.
A warning to all astronomy fans - never peer into a telescope when it is aimed at the Sun. If you don't have special equipment - as I assume this solar telescope is - a regular telescope can project an image to a piece of paper or other white object; this image can be watched safely. Such an image should be enough to see sunspots, if there happen to be any.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
